How to Use biodiesel in a Sentence

biodiesel

noun
  • The woman is making her own biodiesel fuel from mold.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • If data is the new oil, this is like brewing biodiesel in your backyard.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Fry oil is recycled and used to produce biodiesel.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the soybeans are processed into oil for biodiesel but most end up as hog feed.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The biodiesel rides start at $74 for adults, while the steam train begins at $87.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024
  • That makes algae many times as productive as oil palms, the most oil-rich source of biodiesel now in use.
    — Philip T. Pienkos, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
  • While there are advantages to biodiesel, there are also drawbacks.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • More than half of that profit - $270 million - came from the biodiesel tax credit.
    — Desmond Butler, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • Growth in biodiesel production has taken in some of the soybeans that were once exported.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Recycling cooking oil can be turned into something else, such as biodiesel to give new life and be useful.
    — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The hybrid stage will minimize the run time of the biodiesel generators.
    — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But four members of the council on Wednesday opposed the biodiesel purchase.
    — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • It can be used as an ingredient in cosmetics as well as in cooking and products like soap and biodiesel.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • It can be used as an ingredient in cosmetics as well as in cooking and in products such as soap and biodiesel.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Most recycled waste cooking oil is currently used in the production of soap and biodiesel.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The fat removed from the hides can also be rendered down into a biodiesel or industrial oils for resale.
    — Nargess Banks, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Beyond the normal ads for things like taxes, peanuts, cars, and tax-exempt biodiesel cars that run on peanut oil, there were trailers galore.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Eni have already converted three refineries to biodiesel in the past five years and others are likely to follow.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The trains can operate on either straight-up diesel or biodiesel made from rape seed oil, and there are about 500 of them in service.
    — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The company has pledged to phase out its storage of crude oil, instead moving to more sustainable fuels like biodiesel.
    — Kale Williams, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Demand for biodiesel got a boost in July, when a state law went into effect that required all home heating oil to be blended with biodiesel.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The display reveals that some of the fatberg was converted into biodiesel that helps to run London buses.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The fuel options are numerous, with the machine able to run on jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, or biodiesel, and can refuel in less than a minute.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Ingredients for the biodiesel fuel that powers the train come from a couple thousand restaurants in Japan.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The carbon efficiencies of both biodiesel and bioethanol have improved as the production systems have matured.
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Some of the remains will be turned into biodiesel in Denmark, according to German news agency dpa.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • The two most common types of biofuels on the market are ethanol and biodiesel produced from a wide variety of vegetable oils and animal fats.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The plan doesn’t prescribe a way to achieve those reductions or mandate the use of any type of fuel or technology, such as biodiesel or electric cars and trucks.
    — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Some European plants shut down during the pandemic, while others in the US switched to biodiesel.
    — Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Yield10’s initial focus has been to develop very high yielding and high oil content versions that could be used to make biodiesel and jet fuel.
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022

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